Rafael Alcayde

Rafael Alcayde

Born: October 19, 1906
Died: August 27, 1993
in Havana, Cuba

Movies for Rafael Alcayde...

Ten Days To Tulara
Title: Ten Days To Tulara
Character: Mexican colonel
Released: October 29, 1958
Type: Movie
Director George Sherman's 1958 western about gold thieves in Mexico stars Sterling Hayden, Grace Raynor and Rodolfo Hoyos.
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Villa!!
Title: Villa!!
Character: Don Alfonso
Released: October 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Biographical south-of-the-border cowboy western adventure thriller of Mexican revolutionary leader Pancho Villa
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The Last of the Fast Guns
Title: The Last of the Fast Guns
Character: Alcade
Released: July 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A rich, dying Easterner hires gunfighter Brad Ellison to find his brother and heir in Mexico. En route, it becomes clear to Ellison that his is a dying profession. At a remote rancho, Ellison enlists ranch foreman Miles Lang to help him search the hills where the missing man is rumored to have lived. They find nothing ...except that someone wants to kill them; and Ellison becomes wrapped in a maze of double crosses.
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La faraona
Title: La faraona
Character: Eduardo
Released: December 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Pastora Heredia is a beautiful gypsy with great character who always tries to help the needy. One day she gots the notice of the death of his grandfather, a millionaire who lived in Mexico and that since his father was angry, she knew nothing of him. However, as Pastora was his only granddaughter and sole heir of all his property, it does not hesitate to cross the pond to claim his inheritance. But once there is that Don Guillermo, grandfather, not dead.
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The Brave One
Title: The Brave One
Character: Señor Vargas (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1956
Type: Movie
A young Mexican boy tirelessly tries to save his pet bull from death at the hands of a celebrated matador.
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The Hidden One
Title: The Hidden One
Character: Amo de hacienda
Released: June 9, 1956
Type: Movie
Judging by the number of times it has shown up on Spanish-language cable TV, La escondida is one of the most popular and best beloved of the Maria Felix vehicles. The star runs the emotional gamut as Gabriela, who rises from the depths of poverty to the heights of Mexican society as a much-sought-after courtesan. Eventually, however, Gabriela proves that she is still true to her peasant heritage by casting her lot with the rebels in the 1916 Mexican civil war. Pedro Armendariz co-stars as Felipe, the charismatic rebel leader who wins Gabriela's heart - and inadvertently causes her downfall. La escondida is stunningly photographed by the late, great Gabriel Figueroa.
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Basket of Mexican Tales
Title: Basket of Mexican Tales
Character: Señor Ochoa
Released: May 17, 1956
Type: Movie
Strong-willed Luisa attracts lots of men, but her intelligence and sharp tongue often sends them running. When she meets Carlos, who is equally cagey, sparks fly. The two of them marry, and quickly begin clashing on a daily basis, humiliating each other as they try to teach one another lesson after lesson.
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Title: Sheena, Queen of the Jungle
Character: Gonzales
Released: September 1, 1955
Type: TV
The adventures of a woman who grew up in the jungle as she protects the beasts and the natives while encountering white hunters, native Africans, wild animals and slave traders. Source: imdb.com
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Drop the Curtain
Title: Drop the Curtain
Character: Jefe de banda criminal
Released: August 31, 1955
Type: Movie
Cantinflas, who owns a cleaning business, cleans the windows of the house of a famous French actress. While carrying out his work he observes how a man steals one of the famous actress necklaces, but he can only see his back.
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Los líos de Barba Azul
Title: Los líos de Barba Azul
Character: don Agustín
Released: January 28, 1955
Type: Movie
A news reporter falls in love with a millionaire's young daughter, but her father tells him he won't let them marry unless he earns one million Pesos first. Helped by a friend, he tries to earn the money by marrying - and murdering - four rich women.
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Pancho Villa Returns
Title: Pancho Villa Returns
Character: Serpio Reyna
Released: October 20, 1950
Type: Movie
It's 1913, and noble Mexican General Pancho Villa leads his troops against the assassins of President Madero.
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They also sing of pain
Title: They also sing of pain
Character: Alfonso de Madrazo
Released: August 31, 1950
Type: Movie
The movie starts with Braulio Peláez (Pedro Infante), a schoolteacher, having just fallen off his horse, representing the situation he and his family are in. The next scenes introduce the viewer to his family and their poor financial and social situation. As Braulio stumbles around looking for his glasses, he causes a famous film star, Alfonso de Madrazo (Rafael Alcaide) to crash his car. Braulio offers him to eat at his house as an apology. Braulio's sister and mother, big film fans, immediately recognise Alfonso and attempt to get him to bring the girl, Luisa Peláez (Irma Dolores) to Mexico City to become a film star. Alfonso agrees and tells them to come to the capital.
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The Mark of the Skunk
Title: The Mark of the Skunk
Character: Capitán don Gaspar de Cadereyta
Released: June 15, 1950
Type: Movie
In 1840 California, The Texmelucan viscount bizco, offers a feast for his son Tin, who returned from Italy where he studied fencing. The boy turns out to be a coward who flees in terror after refusing to fight a duel with Captain Gaspar. In their flight, Tin rescues a witch was tied to a tree. Grateful, the witch gives him an ointment that will make him invincible for an hour. The coward swordsman will have three opportunities to use it and save his father from the injustices of the evil ruler Marcelo.
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Venus de fuego
Title: Venus de fuego
Released: October 29, 1949
Type: Movie
Wholesome young man falls hard for a woman who's identified as a luxury commodity; gangster/pimp guy in her orbit convinces the nice boy to do crimes so he'll have enough money to move in her circle.
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La venenosa
Title: La venenosa
Character: Harold
Released: October 4, 1949
Type: Movie
A snake-charmer falls in love with a circus trapeze artist who trains her and has her debut in this discipline.
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Cita con la muerte
Title: Cita con la muerte
Released: June 22, 1949
Type: Movie
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La vorágine: abismos de amor
Title: La vorágine: abismos de amor
Released: April 20, 1949
Type: Movie
It narrates the adventures of the poet Arturo Cova and his lover Alicia, a story of passion and revenge framed in the plain lands and the Amazon jungle where the two lovers scape from society, and which exposes throughout its plot the harsh living conditions of settlers and Indians enslaved during the rubber rush.
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El Colmillo de Buda
Title: El Colmillo de Buda
Released: April 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Burlesque version of The Moonstone; the Prince of Panchistan and his cohorts are in Mexico to retrieve a sacred relic. Wacky hijinks ensue.
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Secreto entre mujeres
Title: Secreto entre mujeres
Released: April 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A big ol' player has different stages of a thing happening with each of the five women in a household.
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I Slept With a Ghost
Title: I Slept With a Ghost
Character: Insp. Carlos Vejar
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
Ghost horror-comedy.
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We the Poor
Title: We the Poor
Character: Lawyer Montes
Released: March 25, 1948
Type: Movie
A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita while woos the pretty Celia, but tragedy knocks his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
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Soledad
Title: Soledad
Character: Arturo
Released: November 28, 1947
Type: Movie
Soledad, a maid born in Argentina, works at a Mexican farm. The son of her employer will deceive her, pretending to marry her and leaving her pregnant. When she finds out that she has been tricked, she runs away from the farm. During her flight she meets a group of artists that'll change her life.
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The Kneeling Goddess
Title: The Kneeling Goddess
Character: Demetrio
Released: August 13, 1947
Type: Movie
Legendary superstar María Félix, stars in this melodrama noir playing the role of Raquel, a woman who has a passionate love affair with married aristocrat Antonio. However, a sensual sculpture untitled “The Kneeling Goddess” and modeled after Raquel will lead Antonio down a memory lane he'd rather soon forget.
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Cinco rostros de mujer
Title: Cinco rostros de mujer
Character: Miguel (as Rafael Alcaide)
Released: February 26, 1947
Type: Movie
"The great love of his life" happened five times; one of those women just wrote him a letter. Which one will it be?
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El socio
Title: El socio
Released: April 18, 1946
Type: Movie
A former singer, determined to succeed in business, comes up with a partner and just believing their existence. In the end, wake up ...
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Soy un prófugo
Title: Soy un prófugo
Character: El jefe
Released: March 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A janitor in a large bank is accused of pulling of a major heist. He is forced to become a fugitive while hunting for the real culprits.
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Pepita Jimenez
Title: Pepita Jimenez
Character: Conde
Released: February 22, 1946
Type: Movie
On March 22, four days after returning to his home in Andalusia, Luis de Vargas writes the first of his letters to his uncle and favorite professor at the seminary. He reports that his father intends to fatten him up during his vacation, to have him ready to return in the fall to finish his training for the priesthood. He mentions in passing that his father is courting a twenty-year-old, attractive widow, Pepita Jiménez; his father is fifty-five years old. Pepita had been married for only a short time to an eighty-year-old moneylender named Gumersindo. Luis is not eager to see his father marry again, but he promises his uncle not to judge Pepita before he knows her.
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Footlight Glamour
Title: Footlight Glamour
Character: Jerry Grant
Released: September 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Mr. Dithers is trying to encourage a businessman to build a war-time manufacturing plant on land he owns while Dagwood tries to prevent the businessman from learning his daughter is involved in a local theatre production.
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Submarine Base
Title: Submarine Base
Character: Felipo
Released: July 20, 1943
Type: Movie
Ship engineer Jim Taggert is rescued from a torpedoed tramp steamer by Joe Morgan, an American gangster that found New York too hot for him, and has become a fisherman operating from an out-of-the-way island off of the coast of South America. Morgan makes his headquarters at the Halfway House run by the parents of Maria Styx as a bar and dance resort catering to the planters and traders of the island. Taggert finds himself practically a prisoner along with a group of American girls acting as entertainers at the resort. Taggert shadows Morgan in his activities in a remote cove and finds that Morgan is supplying German U-boat commanders with torpedoes, but does not know that Morgan has rigged the torpedoes with clock devices that explode when at sea and sinks the U-boats.
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Background to Danger
Title: Background to Danger
Character: Turkish Husband on Train
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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The Powers Girl
Title: The Powers Girl
Character: Vandy Vandergrift
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Two small-town sisters who've come to New York City for very different reasons find themselves competing for the affections of a brash magazine photographer. Comedy.
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Two Latins from Manhattan
Title: Two Latins from Manhattan
Character: Cuban (as Rafael Storm)
Released: October 2, 1941
Type: Movie
Joan Daley, a New York booking/press agent, attempts to recruit two local stand-ins, Jinx Terry and Lois Morgan, when the Cuban sister-act, Marianela and Rosita she as booked into the nightclub for which she works fails to materialize. Complications arrive when the real Cuban sisters show up.
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When Ladies Meet
Title: When Ladies Meet
Character: Walter Del Canto
Released: August 29, 1941
Type: Movie
Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.
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Blood and Sand
Title: Blood and Sand
Character: Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Released: May 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Bullfighter Juan Gallardo falls for socialite Dona Sol, turning from the faithful Carmen who nevertheless stands by her man as he continues to face real danger in the bullring.
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Repent at Leisure
Title: Repent at Leisure
Character: Prince Paul Stephanie
Released: April 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Everyone in a large department store knows that a rising star is married to the owner's daughter, except her husband.
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Flight from Destiny
Title: Flight from Destiny
Character: Monsieur Lascaut
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
After his doctor informs him he will die in six months, Professor Henry Todhunter decides to spend his last days killing someone who contributes nothing but harm to society. When Henry learns that his friend Betty's husband, Michael, has been painting forgeries of ancient paintings for gallery owner Ketti Moret, he investigates the fraudulent dealer's life. Judging that Ketti is truly evil, Henry prepares to murder her.
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The Mark of Zorro
Title: The Mark of Zorro
Character: Diego's Manservant (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Around 1820 the son of a California nobleman comes home from Spain to find his native land under a villainous dictatorship. On the one hand he plays the useless fop, while on the other he is the masked avenger Zorro.
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Arise, My Love
Title: Arise, My Love
Character: French Correspondent (Uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A dashing pilot and a vivacious reporter have romantic and dramatic adventures in Europe as World War II begins.
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Mexican Spitfire Out West
Title: Mexican Spitfire Out West
Character: Travel Clerk
Released: October 29, 1940
Type: Movie
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but ends up as the surprised one when she sees him with another woman. Instead of a second honeymoon, Carmelita begins divorce proceedings
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Meet the Wildcat
Title: Meet the Wildcat
Character: Clerk
Released: October 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Magazine photographer Ann Larkin is snapping photos at Mexico's National Museum when she sees Brod Williams steal a painting from its frame. Convinced that Brod is the notorious art thief known as "The Wildcat," Ann follows him into the street and accuses him of being the thief. Even though the police attest that Brod is a New York City police detective, Ann remains dubious.
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Down Argentine Way
Title: Down Argentine Way
Character: Señor Vallergo (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1940
Type: Movie
The story—in which an American heiress on holiday in South America falls in love with an Argentine horse breeder against the wishes of their families—takes a backseat to the spectacular location shooting and parade of extravagant musical numbers, which include the larger-than-life Carmen Miranda singing the hit “South American Way” and a showstopping dance routine by the always amazing Nicholas Brothers.
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The Howards of Virginia
Title: The Howards of Virginia
Character: Lafayette
Released: September 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Beautiful young Virginian Jane steps down from her proper aristocratic upbringing when she marries down-to-earth surveyor Matt Howard. Matt joins the Colonial forces in their fight for freedom against England. Matt will meet Jane's father in the battlefield.
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New Moon
Title: New Moon
Character: Monsieur de Piron
Released: June 28, 1940
Type: Movie
A revolutionary leader romances a French aristocrat in Louisiana.
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Torrid Zone
Title: Torrid Zone
Character: Man
Released: May 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A Central American plantation manager and his boss battle over a traveling showgirl.
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I Take This Woman
Title: I Take This Woman
Character: Raoul Cedro (uncredited)
Released: February 2, 1940
Type: Movie
On return from Europe Dr. Decker foils glamour girl Georgi from jumping overboard. At Decker's suggestion to keep busy, she assists at his clinic in the slums.
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Another Thin Man
Title: Another Thin Man
Character: Gigolo (uncredited)
Released: November 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
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Code of the Secret Service
Title: Code of the Secret Service
Character: First Detective on Train (uncredited)
Released: May 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Secret Service agents try to solve the theft of treasury banknote plates.
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Only Angels Have Wings
Title: Only Angels Have Wings
Character: Rafael - Purser with the Scar
Released: May 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
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Straight, Place and Show
Title: Straight, Place and Show
Character: Boris Borokov - Russian Jockey
Released: September 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The Ritz Brothers go to the race track. They raise training end entrance money in a wrestling match and help a young man train the horse of his fiancée.
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Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Title: Bulldog Drummond in Africa
Character: Policeman Outside Hotel Room
Released: August 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Drummond has to leave for Morocco on his wedding day with his fiancee and trusted friends to rescue his friend Nielsen who is kidnapped by an international criminal.
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Castles in the Air
Title: Castles in the Air
Character: Alberto Guzmán
Released: April 6, 1938
Type: Movie
After winning a trip to Hollywood, office typist Lolita Álvarez (Cristina Téllez) travels to the city of dreams on an ocean liner in the company of her aunt Gertrudis (Pilar Arcos). During the trip, she meets and falls for banker Alberto Guzmán (Rafael Alcayde), mistaking him for a prince while she herself pretends to be a well-travelled socialite. The film features a flamenco-inspired tap dancing scene performed by dancer Edith Davis.
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Wise Girl
Title: Wise Girl
Character: Prince Ivan
Released: December 31, 1937
Type: Movie
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them, she discovers that the Bohemian life is fun and free of the constraints her country-club life places on her. But she decides to take the uncle to court anyway to free him from the kids so he can paint.
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The Bride Wore Red
Title: The Bride Wore Red
Character: Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Released: October 8, 1937
Type: Movie
A poor singer in a bar masquerades as a rich society woman thanks to a rich benefactor.
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Thanks for Listening
Title: Thanks for Listening
Character: Maurice
Released: July 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Homer Tompkins, a trusting young musician with aspirations of becoming a radio star, is installed in a fine set of offices in Reno by a quartet of con artists who have bugged rooms and suites, with the title of "professional listener", and he passes off what he hears to his employers, Lulu, Trixie, Maurice and Champ and they use the information for blackmail purposes. They also so involve his sweetheart, Toots, that he can not withdraw even when he finally learns he is being used as a tool.
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They Met in a Taxi
Title: They Met in a Taxi
Character: Count Petoski
Released: September 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.
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The Golden Arrow
Title: The Golden Arrow
Character: Prince Peter
Released: May 23, 1936
Type: Movie
A fake heiress marries a common reporter to thwart the advances of gold-digging playboys.
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The House of a Thousand Candles
Title: The House of a Thousand Candles
Character: Jules Gregoire
Released: April 2, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of diplomatic courier Tony Carleton, who's been entrusted with a secret message vital to the cause of International peace. En route to Geneva by train, Tony is drugged by sexy cabaret dancer Raquel, who promptly steals the message -- only to be murdered by sinister master spy Sebastian, owner of a posh gambling casino known as The House of a Thousand Candles.
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Stars Over Broadway
Title: Stars Over Broadway
Character: John - 'At Your Service, Madame' Number
Released: November 23, 1935
Type: Movie
An aggressive agent turns a hotel porter into an overnight sensation.
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Music Is Magic
Title: Music Is Magic
Character: Lopez - Cafe Orchestra Leader (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1935
Type: Movie
An aging star finally recognizes the truth when she is replaced in her new movie by a girl from the chorus.
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Here Comes Cookie
Title: Here Comes Cookie
Character: Ramon del Ramos
Released: September 10, 1935
Type: Movie
A scatterbrained heiress opens her home to a succession of unemployed actors and vaudeville performers, then decides to produce her own show, much to the consternation of her father, her sister and her sister's boyfriend, who is actually after the young girl's money.
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Broadway Gondolier
Title: Broadway Gondolier
Character: Ramon
Released: July 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A taxi driver travels to Venice and poses as a gondolier to land a radio singing job.
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The Misses Stooge
Title: The Misses Stooge
Character: The Duke of Gigolette
Released: April 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Thelma and Patsy get a job working for a magician.
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The Fighting Pilot
Title: The Fighting Pilot
Character: Robert R. Jones
Released: February 12, 1935
Type: Movie
An inventor develops a new type of aircraft. A crooked businessman attempts to buy it but the inventor refuses to sell it to him, whereupon the rejected businessman and his henchmen steals the plane and its blueprints. The plane's test pilot, who is the boyfriend of the inventor's daughter, and his sidekick set out to get the plane, and the plans, back.
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Kiss and Make-Up
Title: Kiss and Make-Up
Character: Rolando
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
Dr. Maurice Lamar is a noted plastic surgeon who makes his rich clients beautiful, and also makes them. He makes Eve Caron, the wife of Marcel Caron, so satisfied with his skilled hands that she leaves Marcel and marries Maurice. They go on a Mediterranean honeymoon, where he soon finds the effects of his own beauty regulations are more than he can handle. He bids adieu to his new bride, and wings it back to Paris with the intention of giving up his practice and becoming a scientific researcher... after winning back the love of his simple, unadorned secretary, Anne.
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Only Yesterday
Title: Only Yesterday
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
On the back of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, a young business man is about to commit suicide. With the note to his wife scribbled down and a gun in his hand, he notices a thick envelope addressed to him at the desk. As he begin to read, we're taken back to the days of WW1 and his meeting with a young woman named Mary Lane.
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Cynara
Title: Cynara
Character: Mario
Released: December 24, 1932
Type: Movie
A London barrister's marriage is under strain after his affair with a shopgirl who is out to have him. The story is told in flashback.
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Let's Go Native
Title: Let's Go Native
Character: Argentine Producers' Representative (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1930
Type: Movie
The company of a musical comedy gets shipwrecked on a tropical island inhabited by a "king" from Brooklyn and his coterie of wild native girls.